Mexican Revolution

The Mexican Revolution was a violent social and cultural movement, colored by socialist, nationalist, and anarchist tendencies, that began with the popular rejection of dictator Porfirio Díaz Mori in 1910 and continued even after the promulgation of a new constitution seven years later. Violence continued until the late 1920s, ending only when the Institutional Revolutionary Party (Partido Revolucionario Institucional, PRI) sealed its monopoly on political power in and after 1928. Even after that, the idea that the Revolution was "ongoing" was reinforced in party doctrine and national thought with its notional division into an "armed phase" and an "institutional phase". The "institutional phase" meme only began to disappear from official discourse under President Carlos Salinas de Gortari in the late 1980s.

Madero's presidency

A provisional government headed by Francisco León de la Barra was formed, which made efforts to disband the revolutionary troops — such as sending forces in Morelos against the Zapatistas for their confiscation and distribution of hacienda land.

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Francisco León de la Barra - Morelos - Zapatistas

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In 1911, Madero was elected overwhelmingly. However, Madero enjoyed neither support from his former allies, who claimed the revolution's goals had been betrayed, nor from the members of the old regime. Madero's refusal to enact land reforms caused a break with Zapata who announced the Plan of Ayala, which called for the return of lands "usurped by the hacendados" (hacienda owners).

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1911 - Plan of Ayala - Hacienda owners

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In 1911, counterrevolutionary revolts — the most serious led by Pascual Orozco — were crushed under General Victoriano Huerta. This led to a dependency on the disloyal army. In 1913, Madero was overthrown and killed, along with vice president José María Pino Suárez, in a coup d'état headed by the army's commander-in-chief, the same General Victoriano Huerta.

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Victoriano Huerta - José María Pino Suárez - Coup d'état

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